RD 19: Parramatta Eels v Souths at Pirtek stadium 7.40pm 18/7/14

[I'm a loser baby...]

You mean his kick return try against the Knights? Why would the forwards get any credit for that?

I dunno. But since we're counting wingers, whose metres often include breaks, why not the fullback? Probly better just to leave the wingers out of it.

 

[yy_cheng]

Hayne at training this week really paid dividends..........

DEfinitely. He wasnt at training againt the warriors and we lost by 40+

 

[Joshuatheeel]

8. Mannah
9. Peats
10. Mossop
11. Manu
12. Kelepi
13. Lussick

Not a bad pack there, they were all missing last night. I reckon they would have helped in the wrestle , winning the ruck.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I dunno. But since we're counting wingers, whose metres often include breaks, why not the fullback?

Include the fullback if you want then. It's your life.

I find the fullback always makes plenty of runs and metres regardless of what happens in the match. It's more interesting when the fullback makes f**k all runs and metres, as happened with Sandow last week, and Ben Barba a few times this year.

Probly better just to leave the wingers out of it.

Make sure you look at total runs as well as just metres, especially for the wingers. Daniel Vidot, for example, is the busiest winger in the NRL and most weeks he tops the Broncos for runs and metres. Doesn't make a lot of linebreaks though.

Vidot is important to the Broncos' gameplan because he helps make up for the lack of go forward Brisbane get out of their small pack.

 

[Gazzamatta]

I actually thought Vai was fantastic out of dummy half last night. His other efforts were poor though. Like Terepo, he has hands like feet. He dives low he scores. He dosent lack courage but he does lack technique. Im not sure he should be playing wing.

 

[Chipmunk]

Agree 100%



He sure has. I'm surprised at how big and strong he is. Will become a great player.

Dave Gower gets better every week too.

Gower has been a good find this season. Are we going to have to let him go though because of the salary cap issues?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I hope not.

 

[Chipmunk]

Predictable unfortunately.

We did exactly what a middle of the road team would do in this sort of game. Hopefully we learn from it but the string of losses is a real worry. I hope we get a few more W's before the season is out.

I think the remainder of our season is going to be very interesting and I believe that what we do for the remaining 7 games will have a huge bearing on how we go next season.

Realistically we still play 5 games against teams that are below us. If we are a fair dinkum team heading in the right direction, then we should be winning games against these teams. We should win at least 4, if we're fair dinkum. If we win all 5 of those games, we will make the Top 8.

If we lose most of those games we will probably finish bottom 4... and I fear it will not auger well for 2015...

 

[Chipmunk]

:lol: I did. From memory he had a whopping 35 metres. Or maybe that was Jo Paulo...

Well Ben Smith ran 20 odd metres in one run, doesn't show good metres for the rest of the game.

 

[Chipmunk]

I hope not.

I wonder if we are in a position to re-sign any players not currently signed up for next season?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Well Ben Smith ran 20 odd metres in one run, doesn't show good metres for the rest of the game.

He made almost a tackle a minute though. He clearly wasn't in the team for his attack.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I wonder if we are in a position to re-sign any players not currently signed up for next season?

We've already announced a few re-signings, so the ones we haven't announced are fairly conspicuous.

 

[Maroubra Eel]

I think the remainder of our season is going to be very interesting and I believe that what we do for the remaining 7 games will have a huge bearing on how we go next season.

Realistically we still play 5 games against teams that are below us. If we are a fair dinkum team heading in the right direction, then we should be winning games against these teams. We should win at least 4, if we're fair dinkum. If we win all 5 of those games, we will make the Top 8.

If we lose most of those games we will probably finish bottom 4... and I fear it will not auger well for 2015...

Do you mean augur or auger?

 

[Chipmunk]

He made almost a tackle a minute though. He clearly wasn't in the team for his attack.

Obviously not

 

[hineyrulz]

DEfinitely. He wasnt at training againt the warriors and we lost by 40+

I meant Shanye Bay tan Hayne.

 

[Chipmunk]

Do you mean augur or auger?

augur

 

[Mr Pmatta]

Watched post match conference and to be honest it sounds like Arthur went fairly easy on them praising them for their efforts, here in lies the problem if u do not call a spade a spade, these clowns will think this effort was somewhat acceptable, to me this is typical Parramatta dribble and fear BA is falling into the trap of past coaches,Im not sure he is the answer as he had Toovy to fall back on at Manly at Parra he is exposed and we will really see his ability or lack of.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

I think he's right. We tried our guts out but just didn't have the cattle. Earlier in the year when we had everyone on deck Arthur was all about 'we need to be better' which was fair enough because we could be better. Last night we were just outplayed.

There's no point putting a rocket up the boys. They did their best but Souths have a huge pack and made f**k all mistakes. They completed 89% in the second half.

 

[Chipmunk]

Watched post match conference and to be honest it sounds like Arthur went fairly easy on them praising them for their efforts, here in lies the problem if u do not call a spade a spade, these clowns will think this effort was somewhat acceptable, to me this is typical Parramatta dribble and fear BA is falling into the trap of past coaches,Im not sure he is the answer as he had Toovy to fall back on at Manly at Parra he is exposed and we will really see his ability or lack of.

I thought BA was fairly honest on how we went. I think we put in the effort for sure. But for mine, Hayne's comments in the press conference about $750k of players playing somewhere else, is that they're already looking for excuses about why they will miss the Top 8.

I will be interested to see what we deliver up in the next few weeks. We really need to start winning games. There are no more excuses. I think if we go down to the Gold Coast it will be the straw that will break the camels back and we will be lucky to win another game.

 

[Joshuatheeel]

Moeroa swapped sides during the game I think as he missed a couple of tackles, smith took his spot to fix the defence.